Chapter 036: Placing a bet

Ike walked out of the gate of Luo Xiaohu's house, got on the horse and walked for a while and began to grunt. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

As soon as he entered the house, he immediately said to his father: "Father, I don't want to learn anything from Sepietro!

Luke turned his head to look at his son and said, "Follow me!"

The father and son entered the house one after the other.

"Why, don't you get along well with Lord Sepitero?" Luke sat down and asked directly.

Ike said: "It is precisely because the two of us had a good relationship before, so I don't want him to be my teacher, we were originally friends, but now what is it? I became his student for no reason, what a shame to say!".

Luke looked his son up and down and said, "You think this thing is easy?"

"I don't think it's difficult, you said a few words and he agreed," Ike whispered as he met his father's gaze.

"Do you think I'm going to ask Master Lu Dao now to let you learn painting with him, do you have the face to make him agree?"

Luke looked at his son and thought carefully for a while, then shook his head, and continued: "You also know, I am your father, although I can't pass on the title to you, but I don't care much less about you than your brother, and it's impossible to harm you. You have come up with him to learn how to paint now, and you don't know that the archbishop has invited him to paint the Templar, and that the fool is ready to go around to promote his new artistic movement, and this man's reputation will rise immediately. In my opinion, as long as this person is not stupid, it will not be long before his reputation on the mainland can surpass Master Lu Dao and become the first painter, and then be a little smarter, what is the chance of serving His Majesty the Pope?

"This doesn't have to be the reality!"

"When the day comes, you're still waiting for you to pounce?" Luke looked at his second son with an idiotic look.

Knock! Knock!

"Master!"

Luke looked at the door and shouted, "Come in."

"Master, the gift is almost ready, which one do you say to give?" came in the butler of the Earl's Court, and when he came in, he stood by the door, leaned over and asked the Earl.

"The heaviest part!"

"He agreed?" the butler suddenly smiled.

Luke said, "Well, Lord Sepitro will be Ike's teacher in the future, and you must respect it if you meet in the future."

"Congratulations to Master Ike," the butler said with a smile at Ike.

Ike is a little bitter here, the truth Ike naturally knows, but all of a sudden call someone younger than himself a teacher, and he will listen to his arrangements in the future, but it can be said that his life and death will fall into the hands of others, and his heart is naturally unhappy, this embarrassment is not understandable or unreasonable, it can be erased at once.

"Hmm!" The status of the old butler is not ordinary, and there is something that will need to be used in the future, so Ike is not easy to lose face here, so Ike replied with a hum.

Luke said: "Send the gift to Lord Sepitro as soon as possible, you go and do it yourself, and by the way, ask them what are the shortcomings of the house, and if you need it, you can do it, if it really doesn't work, you can tell me again, and you will definitely satisfy the family in Zhoudao!"

"Master, is this appropriate?" the butler asked.

Luke smiled: "You old thing is also an old thing that can't be seen, whether it is suitable or not must be expressed like this, or when people become celebrities, and then go to the pole to welcome, then it will not be this price, and at that time, it will be difficult to say whether people can still look at me, the earl of White Tree City."

When the housekeeper heard his master say this, he immediately nodded his head, turned around and closed the door and went out to run errands.

Luke looked at his son and said: "You will concentrate on learning painting with the teacher in the future, don't make the teacher unhappy, you also know that the teacher has the power to punish the students, and I will not be able to interfere with the ...... then."

Seeing that his son seemed to be very serious, Luke couldn't help but say a few more words, from the apprentice to the responsibility of the family, and then to the revitalization of the family, the old man said well, and naturally launched a tirade, and waited until he finished talking and looked up to see that the sun outside was about to set, and then stopped the topic.

"Alright, I've got something to do in the evening, you stay and have dinner with your mother," Luke said.

Hearing his father say this, Ike, who had been pretending to be his son in a low position, immediately wanted to put on his wings and leave here, who was in his twenties, who could bear Lao Tzu's endless speech? Hearing this, he saluted directly, turned around and ran out of the room.

As he walked down the stairs towards the fourth floor where his mother lived, he saw a group of servants coming down, still holding silver trays in their hands, obviously having just sent something down.

"Why is it so lively?" asked Ike curiously, looking at the servant.

"Miss Handa is here, and is talking upstairs with Madame," said the servant.

As soon as he heard this, Ike's face suddenly lost its previous happiness, and he nodded to the servant and said, "Then you guys go and get busy."

After standing on the stairs for a while, patting the handrail and thinking for a while, Ike finally didn't go upstairs, but turned and went downstairs.

This Miss Handa is her brother's fiancée, and if she is there, then her brother must be there, and although the two brothers have the same father and mother, they are not too much of a deal, so Ike decides to go back to his nest. I rarely see my brother's loving face.

Walking through the front door for fear of running into his father, Ike called his servant and ran back to the den.

Thinking about this heartwarming thing, Ike originally decided not to go out tonight to have fun, but then he thought that he had joined the boy of Sepietro as a coolie, and he didn't know when he would have a chance to have fun again, so he changed his clothes and ran to the bar he frequented.

As soon as he opened the door of the bar, Ike felt that the atmosphere in the bar was a little different today, and it was not as lively as before.

"What's wrong?" asked Ike as he asked for a glass of wine and sat down at the table curiously.

"Don't mention it, you know that outlander Sepitero, right?"

How could Ike not know? and said directly: "Know, what's wrong?".

"My father wanted to send me to learn to draw with him," said the fat man, who was sitting across from Ike.

"My father wants to send me over to learn some new kind of music with him, how do you think I know that......" The short, long, small, melon-like fat man next to him sighed.

Ike couldn't help but be happy when he heard it, and said in his heart: It turns out that my father is not the only one who thought of this idea, it seems that many people's own fathers are also playing this idea!

Hearing that these people's fathers had this idea, Ike suddenly felt a little balanced in his heart, and he was not so resistant to being an apprentice to Lord Sepietro's house.

"You're all fine, I'm in big trouble," said a skinny young man sitting at a table next to him, "Last time I gambled with Sepietro, I lost ten Star Coins!"

"Ten Star Coins, you're crazy!" said the little fat man sitting opposite Ike in surprise, "Where did you get the capital!"

"I just didn't ask for the capital, I wanted to win a little more, so I invested two star coins and wrote five times the odds," the little man sighed and said, "I don't know how to repay this account."

Don't look at the previous princes, when they listened to the song, they made dozens of star coins, that was the prince! Moreover, he was the prince of several major powers in the mainland, and it was naturally the same as playing with more than 20 star coins.

But the star coins are not a small number for the second sons of these fallen nobles, and most people can't make up a few star coins in a year's life, and they can get three star coins a year from their families, so they are quite favored by their parents at home. Take out ten star coins at once, let alone this person, even most parents may not be able to take out so much money at once.

They are all petty nobles without fiefs. It is said that it is a nobleman, but in fact, it is a middle-class civil servant under the city lord of White Tree City, how much can this salary be in a year?

At this time, another person at the table said: "You're okay, Zhuoer and Rand are going to be servants directly, and they are still slaves of the family."

"I hope that tomorrow I can have this opportunity, give him a student, once he becomes a student, as a teacher, then it is not good for him to ask me about the apprentice to ask for debts!" The little man seems to have infinite expectations for being an apprentice.

"yes, that's what I thought!"

"We're already good, those guys in the ground movement bar owe more, I heard that Zakdar is directly eighty star coins"

"Whew!"

Everyone immediately took a breath of cool air.

"He really has the guts!"

"Sure enough, it's the eldest son," someone said gloatingly.

............

Ike pricked up his ears and listened, and calculated in his heart that now among his fox friends and dog friends, at least ten people owe money to their 'teacher', and there are not a few who owe, the least one is eight star coins, and I am afraid that it will have to be a hundred and ten star coins at this time.

As for the ground movement bar, it is mainly a gathering place for the sons-in-law, and it is also a gathering place for the sons-in-law with noses and faces in White Tree City, they lose money, these gangs have no inheritance, and they are driven out of the house, and the second sons who are messing around are naturally happy.

Ike listened to the complaints of his partners, but his heart became more and more comfortable and comfortable. Now I feel that being an apprentice is nothing.

Luo Xiaohu didn't know that he was being targeted by a group of sub-nobles in White Tree City, as if they were small aristocrats, and they all stretched out their heads and were ready to find an opportunity to stuff their children over, either under the guise of learning music or under the guise of learning painting, there was only one purpose behind it, that is, to take advantage of Luo Xiaohu to become a royal painter of the Holy See, and now he has a good relationship with this very wealthy painting master.

Who on the whole continent doesn't know that the biggest patrons of painting are the Church and the Pope? Not to mention the Pope, all the cardinals also have their own sponsors of their favorite artists. At the level of Lord Sepitero, the possibility of being reused by the Pope is very high, and who can see that it is a fool.

How could Luo Xiaohu's mind think of this, from the good idea of his own painting to being reused by the Pope. Originally, Luo Xiaohu would have been able to think of it under normal circumstances, but Luo Xiaohu wanted to find the magic notes of the green-haired big roller and practice the Great Imperial Law to bully people, so he didn't think about being an errand for the Holy Court, so he naturally couldn't think of this.

Now Luo Xiaohu is very happy, not because of anything else, but because Earl Luke's gift has arrived, just the size of the objects is a cart full of food, everything to eat and play, and the most important thing is the gift money of seven star coins from others.

"Master, look?"

"You keep two star coins for use first, and save the rest tomorrow" Luo Xiaohu said: "Finally, this Luke still knows a little bit about things, and he knows that he can't let his son live and eat in my place for nothing, so he sent me compensation."

Now that even the earl has given gifts to his master, Laifu's face is naturally more bright: "What the master said is that in fact, you are willing to accept his son, and that is their luck!"

"Can talk!" Luo Xiaohu stretched out his hand and nodded at the blessing and praised and said: "I knew that I would have accepted a few more apprentices, and if I received him ten or eight, this is dozens of star coins, if I don't pursue this life, I can come over beautifully."

"Yes, let me tell you, many famous painters on the mainland have a lot of apprentices, such as Master Ludao, there are more than 30 apprentices alone, I heard that he is an art workshop there, from the grinding of pigments to the painting of a large part of his apprentices painted, Master Ludao rarely paints the ...... in person."

"Oh, okay, you" Luo Xiaohu couldn't help but praise when he heard what Laifu said: "You know this?"

"You're so famous, wouldn't it be a shame for you if I didn't know this," Rifle said with a smile.

Luo Xiaohu immediately praised: "Okay, good, you are a caring person!"

In the two lifetimes combined, Luke was the first person to give Luo Xiaohu a gift, and it was such a generous gift, which made Luo Xiaohu very satisfied for a while, of course, when Luo Xiaohu's father was alive before, someone came to give things from time to time, but it was for his son, not for Luo Xiaohu.

"I didn't expect that this day has finally come!" Luo Xiaohu looked at the cart of gifts, holding a few star coins in his hand, and said self-absorbedly.